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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
What Makes Grumpy Old Men Grumpy?
Why Do People’s Eyes Turn Red in Photos?
Why Are Most People Right-Handed?
Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
Are Computer Games as Addictive as Cocaine?
Why Is the Eagle a Recognized Symbol of the United States?
Why Do People Say “Cheese” When Being Photographed?
Why Do Oceans and Not Lakes Have Tides?
Why Do People Rub Their Eyes When They’re Tired?
Why Is There a Black Dot in an Otherwise White Bird Dropping?
What Is the Difference Between a Bison and a Buffalo?
How Did the Thumbs-Up Gesture Come to Mean OK?
Why Doesn’t Aluminum Foil Get Hot in the Oven?
Why Do Women Dance More Than Men?
Do Vegetarians Live Longer?
Why Do Migrating Birds Bother Flying Back North?
Why Does Time Fly When You’re Having Fun?
Why Doesn’t Rain Come Down a Chimney, When Smoke Can Get Out?
What Makes a Whip Crack?
Why Do Rabbits Wiggle Their Noses?
What Are Hyenas Laughing At?
Why Do Delivery Truck Drivers Keep Their Engines Idling When Dropping Something Off?
Why Do Short Men Tend to Have Higher Voices Than Tall Men?
How Do Blind People Dream?
Why Don’t Cats Like to Swim?
Why Are the Buttons on Men’s and Women’s Shirts on Different Sides?
Why Are There Dents on the Top of Cowboy Hats?
Why Do Only Old Men Have Hairy Ears?
Why Does Looking at the Sun Make Some People Sneeze?
Why Do People Become Emotional When Drunk?
Why Are Graves Dug 6 Feet Deep?
Is It Possible to Eat Fifty Eggs Like in Cool Hand Luke?
Why Are Baseball Dugouts Below Ground Level?
Why Does Garlic Cause Bad Breath?
Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?
Why Don’t Vultures Get Sick from Eating Rotten Meat?
Why Don’t Tornadoes Ever Hit Big Cities?
Why Doesn’t Your Own Snoring Wake You Up?
Why Are Rain Clouds Dark?
When People Lose Their Jobs, Why Is It Said That They Got the Sack or Got Fired?
Why Do We Rarely See Dead Birds?
Who Determines the Boundary Line Between Oceans?
Do Cell Phones Really Interfere with Aircraft?
What Are the Origins of the English Alphabet?
Why Does Old Film Footage Appear to Be in Fast Forward?
How Did the Expression Teetotal Originate?
Why Are Batteries Never Included?
Why Do Seagulls Hang Out in Parking Lots?
Do the Eskimos Really Have Hundreds of Words for Snow?
What Is the Butterfly Effect, and How Did It Originate?
Why Doesn’t Glue Get Stuck in the Bottle?
Why Do Bats Roost Upside Down?
Why Are Some People Double-Jointed?
Why Don’t Lizards Get Sunburned?
Why Don’t Women Faint as Much as They Used To?
Why Does the Price of Gas End in Nine-Tenths of a Cent?
Why Are Rabbits Associated with Easter?
What Are the Origins of the Pi Symbol?
Who Was Dr. Pepper?
Can Piranhas Really Devour a Cow in Under a Minute?
Why Are People Immune to Their Own Body Odor?
Why Do the Chinese Use Chopsticks?
How Was the 1919 Baseball World Series Fixed?
Why Are Large Trucks Called “Semis”?
What Are the Origins of the Expression “Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth”?
Why Is Jack the Nickname for John?
Do Skunks Think Skunks Stink?
Why Are Blue Jeans Sewn with Orange Thread?
Why Were Prehistoric Animals So Big?
Why Do Some Old People Constantly Make a Chewing Motion?
Why Doesn’t the Water in Fire Hydrants Freeze in the Winter?
Why Do Doctors Have Such Messy Handwriting?
Why Don’t Buses Have Seatbelts?
Why Don’t Governments Just Print More Money When They Need It?
How Do Fire Walkers Do It?
What Are the Origins of the Mexican Wave?
What Is the Difference Between an Emu and an Ostrich?
Why Do Firehouses Often Have Dalmatians?
Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine?
What Do Mosquitoes Do During the Day?
Why Does Fire Make a Crackling Sound?
Why Isn’t There a Light in the Freezer, but One in the Fridge?
Don’t Police Sirens Alert the Bad Guys That the Cops Are on Their Way?
Can One Spider Get Caught in the Web of Another?
How Do Authorities Mark Banknotes?
Does Stress Make Your Hair Turn Gray?
Why Were Duels Always Fought at Dawn?
Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?
Why Does Warm Milk Help People Sleep?
Are Extra-Large Hens Needed to Lay Extra-Large Eggs?
What Is the History of the Samurai?
Just How Safe Is Fort Knox?
Is There a Fine Line Between Pleasure and Pain?
How Did the Strange Scoring System in Tennis Come About?
Why Do Cats March Up and Down on Carpet?
Why Are the Ceilings in Train Stations So High?
Do Glasses Weaken Your Eyes?
Why Do Fish Float Upside Down When They Die?
Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
How Disastrous Would the Extinction of Bees Really Be?
Does 80 Percent of a Person’s Heat Really Escape from Their Head?
How Is the Name of the Painter Van Gogh Pronounced?
What Exactly Is Interpol?
Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?
Does Watching Violent Television Influence Children?
Can Police Dogs Really Sniff Out Drugs?
Why Didn’t Native Americans Wipe Out Europeans with Diseases?
What Happens to Stuff Confiscated at Security Checkpoints?
What Is the Difference between a Seal and a Sea Lion?
Why Do Bugs Roll onto Their Backs When They Die?
What Does the Zip in “Zip Code” Mean?
Why Do You Sometimes See a Pair of Sneakers Hanging over Power Lines?
Does Sugar Make Kids Hyper?
Where Did the Idea of Counting Sheep Come From?
Did Einstein Really Fail Math as a Child?
Are Zebras’ Stripes Black or White?
Why Can’t Men See Things That Are Right in Front of Them?
Why Are the Academy Awards Called the Oscars?
What Are the Origins of the Expression “Knock on Wood”?
What Happens If a Person Is Transfused with the Wrong Blood Type?
Why Are the Portholes on Ships Round?
Why Is a Mile 5,280 Feet Long?
Why Do Weathervanes Have Roosters on Top of Them?
Why Do Dogs Tilt Their Heads When You Talk to Them?
Why Do We Cry at Happy Endings?
Why Do Divers Spit into Their Masks before Getting in the Water?
Why Do We Like Food That We Hated When We Were Younger?
Why Do the Speed Controls on Fans Go From Off to High to Low?
Do We Breathe a Single Molecule of Julius Caesar’s Last Breath in Every Breath We Take?
What Causes That Recognizable New Car Smell?
Why Do Only Children Get Head Lice?
Is It Bad to “Crack” Your Knuckles?
What Are the Chances We Are Alone in the Universe?
Why Do Pigeons in Cities Have Deformed Toes?
Why Do You Have to Take Laptops Out of Their Cases at Airport Security?
Why Do Your Legs Wobble When Standing on a Cliff Top?
Why Are the Chinese Superstitious of the Number Four?
Why Are Police Officers Known as “Cops”?
Will You Get Tetanus by Standing on a Rusty Nail?
Why Does Eating Food Make You Hot?
Why Are Autopsies Performed on Criminals Who Have Just Been Executed?
Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
Do You Need to Wait 24 Hours before Filing a Missing Person Report?
Why Do We Crave Greasy Food When We’re Hungover?
Do You Really Have to Wait 30 Minutes to Swim after Eating?
Does Baldness Come from the Mother’s Side?
If You Touch a Baby Bird, Will Its Mother Really Reject It?
Can You Get Killed by Poking a Metal Object into a Power Outlet?
Is It Dangerous to Wake a Sleepwalker?
Does Watching Too Much Television Ruin Your Eyesight?
Why Do Muscles Sometimes Twitch?
What Is the Legend of Casanova?
How Did Wolves Become Dogs?
Does Listening to Mozart Really Make Babies Smarter?
How Does Bounty Hunting Work?
Do Houseflies Only Live for 24 Hours?
Is It Dangerous to Be in a Swimming Pool During a Thunderstorm?
Who Owns Wall Graffiti?
Why Does Seeing Food Make Your Mouth Water?
If a Tree Falls in a Forest, Does It Make a Sound?
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